Oh but it doesn't! It sounds RIGHT! Trust me. The "L" is pronounced here

So is it "sahl-der" or "sole-der"? Because both sound bizarre to my ears. Sole-der sounds like a mispronunciation of soldier, and sahl-der sounds like a bad impression of a Southern drawl saying Saudi.

Oh but it doesn't! It sounds RIGHT! Trust me. The "L" is pronounced here

So is it "sahl-der" or "sole-der"? Because both sound bizarre to my ears. Sole-der sounds like a mispronunciation of soldier, and sahl-der sounds like a bad impression of a Southern drawl saying Saudi.

Oh but it doesn't! It sounds RIGHT! Trust me. The "L" is pronounced here

So is it "sahl-der" or "sole-der"? Because both sound bizarre to my ears. Sole-der sounds like a mispronunciation of soldier, and sahl-der sounds like a bad impression of a Southern drawl saying Saudi.

SOLE-der. It really does rhyme with folder and colder.

Soldier comes out more like Sole-Ja. So, similar but distinguishable.

Ah, but here, soldier is pronounced sole-jer. So sole-der would be very, *very* similar.

Oh but it doesn't! It sounds RIGHT! Trust me. The "L" is pronounced here

So is it "sahl-der" or "sole-der"? Because both sound bizarre to my ears. Sole-der sounds like a mispronunciation of soldier, and sahl-der sounds like a bad impression of a Southern drawl saying Saudi.

SOLE-der. It really does rhyme with folder and colder.

Soldier comes out more like Sole-Ja. So, similar but distinguishable.

Ah, but here, soldier is pronounced sole-jer. So sole-der would be very, *very* similar.

And what's up with advertisement being "ad-ver-tiz-ment"?

Well, solder could also be Sole-da, depending on how ocker the speaker is.

What the heck is an acai and how do you pronounce its berries? I assumed it was "uh-KAY" until I saw some commercial calling it "ah-sah-EE" and now I'm wondering whether I just made up my own pronunciation or whether there's more than one. I'm pretty sure all the contestants on "RuPaul's Drag Race" a few seasons ago pronounced it my way

Oh but it doesn't! It sounds RIGHT! Trust me. The "L" is pronounced here

So is it "sahl-der" or "sole-der"? Because both sound bizarre to my ears. Sole-der sounds like a mispronunciation of soldier, and sahl-der sounds like a bad impression of a Southern drawl saying Saudi.

SOLE-der. It really does rhyme with folder and colder.

Soldier comes out more like Sole-Ja. So, similar but distinguishable.

So we don't pronounce the "l" for the same reason you don't seem to pronounce the "r" in soldier

One of the ones that used to bug me--portrait. In the city I used to live in, there was this photo finishing place that ran ads on TV for their "portrait service". Now, I have always pronounced and heard it pronounced as "POOR-trit" According to the dictionary, there is also a correct pronunciation that sounds more like "POOR-trait" (note that the emphasis stays on that first syllable?). This fellow, however, pronounced it "poor-TRAIT" about seven times in thirty seconds.

On pronunciations of place names that might want to make your head explode--not too terribly far from where I live, there are towns named Cairo and Vienna--KAY-ro (like the corn syrup brand) and VIE-an-na (like vie and the name Anna put together), respectively.

What the heck is an acai and how do you pronounce its berries? I assumed it was "uh-KAY" until I saw some commercial calling it "ah-sah-EE" and now I'm wondering whether I just made up my own pronunciation or whether there's more than one. I'm pretty sure all the contestants on "RuPaul's Drag Race" a few seasons ago pronounced it my way

It's a kind of palm tree, pronounced "uh-sigh-EE". I too thought it was "uh-KAY".

And Honeybee, the city in Egypt is "KIE-ro", the city in Illinois (btw, "ill-in-OY") is KAY-roe .

What is Chipotle? I now say "chi-POTE-lay", but that doesn't seem right. You don't want to know how long I thought it was "chi-POTTLE".